Group 1: Coming-of-Age
Victoria Guillot, Rodrigo Castro Vales, Emilie Pee dit Grabet, and Marc Chatagnon
- “Down home, smart meant you got homework done in time. Not so smart in… Brooklyn.”- Act 1, Page 10
- “Whole school thinks I’m a communist. It’s all your fault, ya know.”- Act 1, Page 35
- “Bakery? Imagine a life in the bakery by his side with no greater expectation than for the bread to rise.”- Epilogue, Page 82
- “I don’t know that that’s what I want to do.”- Epilogue, Page 83
- “But today I’m just riffing and walking as far as these feet will take me.”- Epilogue, Page 85
Group 2:
- it upset that white teacher and she seemed like a smart lady. P36
- and told him to stop mingling with the Jews at his job and everything would be all right p35
- the boss keeps calling me “the country nigger,” in front of the other men p77
- She white! P50
- You really thought you could marry a white woman and enter the Kingdom of heaven ? P73
- We’re the only colored people on that Block p56
- “What it like living up there with a white lady?” “She make you scrub the floors?” “She really blonde?” “Hear they smell like a wet dog when their hair gets wet?” “She a Nazi like Adolph Hitler?”p57
Group 4: Clothing/Appearance/Cinema
cinema -« blue flickering lights » mentioned a lot in stage directions ; cinema’s lights
-ernestine saying multiple times in the play « in the movies.. » referring to how easy everything is solve in movies,, problems/conflicts are gone at the end of it.
clothing: « our dresses were sewn with love » , « a sorry pair of shoes[…] » & « i got me a new pair of shoes »
appearance:his appearance is always neat and well assembled, it’s my little subversive mission to outdress them whenever possible
no hablol espagnol
Group 5: Addiction and religion as an escape
p41) Lily: I didn’t drink here. I drank before I got here.
(p38)A very drunk and disheveled Lyli enters.
Group 3: The bilingual
Quote:
- “Whole school thinks I’m a communist. It’s all your fault, y’a know.” (Page 35)
- “Ernestine stands in a spotlight wearing her white graduation gown, with the ragged lace border around the collar. She holds a diploma in her hand.” (Page 82)
- “I don’t care what it say, but it upset that white teacher and she seemed like a smart lady” (Page 36)
“Im not Darling Angel, I’m Ernestine Crump, it says so on my diploma
- ”They…them… the gals laughed at us the first day at school, with our country braids and simple dresss my mommy had sewn.” (Page 10